Master Levels for Doom 2 does a good job of showing that you don't need to add any new content to make a good expansion. Either that or maybe an expansion for Doom 2 will always be good because even if it's subpar, you're still playing Doom 2. But Master Levels isn't subpar, far from it. The level design is top notch and extremely rememberable, and I was quite surprised that 3 or 4 of the levels actually had a plot! And an interesting one at that. For the majority of the levels you're just playing doomguy, but for these 3 to 4 levels, you play a cyberdemon thats actually been turned into a human! And sentenced to death, the cyberdemon fights back and ends with a finale against quite a few cyberdemons. This is easily one of the most impressive stories in a game that only uses .txt docs to explain everything! And by completing all the levels, I have been happily awarded the title of "Master of Destruction!" At least, according to the game... I highly reccomend everyone to play this and become a "Master of Destruction" too! And you should already have it, unless for some bizzare reason you don't own Doom Classic Complete. But why wouldn't you?

Doom is, hands down, one of the best first person shooter games ever made, if not THE best FPS in history. Whilst it has questionable graphics in comparrison to modern games, it was still way ahead of it's time, as was the Quake series and offers so much more than any of these crappy Call of Duty games do these days. The entire Doom series was my childhood in a nutshell, I will never forget when my Dad first installed it and let us play when we were only little kids. We had so many hours of fun and so many different levels and difficulty settings to try and complete.

To sum it up, Doom, Doom II and Final Doom are some of the best games that were ever produced. Seriously, why WOULDN'T you want the whole Doom series?

Packed with the Steam sale, this extension provides a much higher section of difficulty levels to try out for Doom 2. Fantastically designed by the community, you'd almost believe that they worked for ID...in fact they do :)

It contains 20 WADS that are made by the community of DOOM 2 under contract of ID Software. These are;

Whether the Master Levels are worth picking up or not depends on what you want them for: If you simply want high quality Doom II levels, you should probably pass them up. While there are some good maps in here, there are also poorly designed frustraiting ones. There are countless Doom maps available for free, and many are better than these:

What's great about this set of levels, however, is the history that comes with them. These aren't called the "Master" levels for nothing. The guys who made these maps were pretty much the best-of-the-best at the time of its release. If you care about the history of Doom mapping, definitely pick these up! It's unfortunate that they can't be bought separately or with a copy of Doom II, rather than having to buy all the classic Doom games in a collection.

This is a collection of 21 high quality custom levels for DOOM II made by the fan community and originally released in late 1995, and I'd say it would be worth the purchase if Valve didn't remove the option of buying it individually. You must buy the classic DOOM pack to get it now. Of course, if you're going to play the Master Levels you'd do good to pick up and play the others as well if you haven't already.

The retail version of the Master Levels (as in, the non-Steam version) also contained 'Maximum Doom', about 1,830 amateur custom levels downloaded from the internet. It was iD's response to the shovelware discs containing thousands of DOOM levels of varying quality that were floating around at the time. You can read about it here and download it here if you really want to.

Doom II was amazing so we eventually got an add on for the game called Master Levels for Doom II, I first played it a few months ago and I'll admit, I wasn't very impressed, the levels weren't as fun to me and I think that's my main problem with this add on, everything else in the game is pretty solid but it's the levels that make the replayability pretty low for me, I'd only reccomend it to the most hardcore Doom fans but if you're a casual gamer and you don't play it, you're not missing out on much

This expansion for Doom II is only available through Doom Classic Complete, which I highly recommend. The Doom series was a popular series in the 90s and has had another game recently: Doom II. The expansion pack consists of 20 "WADs", with one WAD containing a secret level [the first screenshot on the store page]. Think of this as a bonus, as steam has yet to sell this separately.

This game runs via the acclaimed emulator DOSBOX, and you will find a copy of the application in the Steam directory. You will be able to select WADs via the Doom-It interface, where you can select one of the 20 levels. The WADs are extremely well designed and my personal favourites are TEETH and MANOR. However, this game is certainly not for everyone.

Try the Doom I shareware on DOSGames using DOSBox before you make a purchase. If you don't like the limitations from the original DOS version, you can copy the WADs into a source port's directory [such as ZDoom and PrBoomPlus] and you can play it from there. They introduce new High Definition graphics and add jumping and aiming abilities.

I cannot give this a score as it is not identifiable as a standalone title; you will need Doom II to play this so that is why Steam doesn't sell it separately. Overall, this is a great modification for Doom II. If you want to use other mods on Doom 2, you will need to use this command on DOSBox Doom2.exe -file [Mod].wad.